Next Monday, the Santa Barbara community will gather to celebrate the completed restoration of Herbert Bayer’s Chromatic Gate. The celebration on July 15 will start at 1 p.m. at Calle Puerta Vallarta and East Cabrillo Blvd., moving over to the Fess Parker Resort for a reception. The effort to restore the Chromatic Gate started right here on Santa Barbara View in 2010 and has been dubbed a “significant achievement” by the City. Congratulations to you the Viewers who commented and contributed to help Keep Santa Barbara Santa Barbara™… here’s how the Chromatic Gate looks now!

The entire park there would look better if the Chromatic Gate were gone. There’d be green grass, blue sky and ocean; much better than some out-of-place artifice.
It’s possible the Chromatic Gate would work better somewhere else – perhaps an urban park – I don’t know. All I know is it sucks where it is. It should be removed.
At the current location it doesn’t work; it just doesn’t, never has. It’s simply bad art.

The monstr– err–“artwork” isn’t really THAT terrible, but the location is completely wrong. A far better place for it would be the airport, where it could brighten up the bleak, boring landscape. Any chance of getting it moved? I’ll donate a hundred bucks to the cause.